Comparing Bush to Churchill

Giulliani last night:

One of my heroes, Winston Churchill, saw the dangers of Hitler while his opponents characterized him as a warmongering gadfly.

As anyone who knows a something about Churchill is aware, as a military strategist, Winnie is a match for Bush.

Churchill pushed the disastrous Gilipoli misadventure.

Churchill constantly badgered Roosevelt and Eisenhower to do things like invade the Isle of Rhodes.

Churchill was decidedly not a great strategist -- much like Bush. So I'll take that comparison as apt.

Churchill was right about one thing in his life, admittedly a big thing, and he was right before the storm, not after it introduced itself by killing 3,000 people. Think Churchill would have ignored the 8/6/01 PDB Rudy?

Bush by the way, is doing a pretty good Neville Chamberlain in Iraq with Mr. Al Sadr at the moment too.

But let's imagine Winston Churchill as Bush:

the original, becomes;

"we shall defend our nation, no matter how many taxes we cut, we shall perpetually fight on the beaches, we shall perpetually fight on the landing grounds, we shall perpetually fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall perpetually fight in the hills; we shall never be victorious."

the original, becomes:

"Let us therefore brace ourselves to our duties, and so bear ourselves that, if the United States last for a thousand years, men will still say, "At least we fought them to a draw."

Inspiring, no?